College of Arts and Sciences

A 66-foot-tall banner with an image of Frederick Douglass and his statement from the commencement address to the campus has been recently installed on Case Western Reserve University’s Triangle Building. The statement reads: “The relation subsisting between the white and black people of this country is the vital question...

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We are eagerly awaiting Photographs in Ink curated by PhD candidate Benjamin Levy. The exhibition will be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from November 20 through April 2 in the Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery. Ben previews this exciting exploration of photomechanical images–photographs made...

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Kelvin Smith Library is hosting an event to celebrate Frank Hadley Ginn and his family, Cleveland's collectors and generous patrons of the arts. "Art for Every Season: The Ginn Family Collectors in Cleveland's Golden Age" will take place on September 7th, from 9 am till 11 am. Julia LaPlaca, CWRU...

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Faculty and graduate students as well as Karen Kaler joined Fred Bidwell and Sarah Liska at the the FRONT PNC Exhibition Hub at Transformer Station for a private viewing of FRONT's thesis exhibition, as well as brief remarks and light refreshments. CWRU is proud to be collaborating in so...

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We are delighted to announce the keynote speaker of the Cleveland Symposium, Dr. De-nin D. Lee! Dr. De-nin D. Lee (李德寧) is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College. She will discuss writing the scholarship of the now, and of the...

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This Friday (September 9) of Jitske Jasperse (Humboldt University of Berlin) will present "A Taste for Limoges: Colorful Caskets in Medieval Spain." WHEN: Friday, September 9, 2022, 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Cleveland Museum of Art, Morley Family Lecture Hall Bright colors, decorative patterns, and polished surfaces define Limoges caskets (also chasses). They were...

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Congratulations to Prof. Benay and her undergraduate and graduate students, whose work on the EHI grant initiative Pressing Matters was recently profiled by Humanities for All! Published by the National Humanities Alliance, Humanities for All is the leading showcase for publicly engaged humanities work at colleges and universities. Read the article here: https://humanitiesforall.org/projects/pressing-matters

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We are excited to announce Professor Elina Gertsman's latest publication in Gesta, the flagship journal of the International Center for Medieval Art. Titled “Animal Affinities: Monsters and Marvels in the Ambrosian Tanakh,” the article offers a first look at Professor Gertsman's new area of scholarly interest, medieval Jewish material culture,...

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Third-year PhD student Reed O’Mara began working this summer at Special Collections and Archives of CWRU’s Kelvin Smith Library. In addition to managing the Hatch Special Collections Reading Room, Reed has been assisting with archiving materials from Cleveland’s own Karamu House as well as studying Special Collection’s various medieval...

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Congratulations to fifth-year PhD student Alex Kaczenski who has been selected as the next Curatorial Intern for the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA! She will spend the 2022-23 academic year working on a range of curatorial projects at the renowned institution.

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